Wednesday August 16 2006
Walked and had cereal, and Leslie went back to class. I walked both dogs by myself and listened to my ipod. Worked on a new song and took a nap, and worked on it some more. Then I met Jason Gray at Pei Wei and he said he had been offered a gig in Cuba, at Guantanamo. Wow. The wonton soup is my new favorite thing, though. It has a nice almost “smoky” flavor. Went home and Liz called. Also, Matt is trying to put me in touch with Randy Newman. Then somebody called from Nickelodeon and wanted to license the song “How Can You Be So Sure”, which was totally out of the blue, and I wonder if Drake Bell had something to do with that. We were supposed to write, and I gave them some dates, but nobody called me back about it. Went to sound check at the Mercy Lounge, and John Bruton was there, and he gave me a Dos Perros. I told Sara Beck she needed to turn the volume on her website down. It almost blew my ears off. But the sound check was good, and I like playing with Joey, the drummer of De Novo Dahl, and there is a nice piece on them in the Nashville Scene this week, and they are all wearing the same clothes. That Serai girl is so pretty, but she’s dyed her hair. Went to Baja Burrito ($9) and went home and put some clothes in the dryer and went back down to Mercy. The set was short, but really fun, and the Eric Lehning (Jason’s brother) and his band “Lazerman and the Non-Commissioned Officers” played, and they’re really terrific. I was talking to Kyle Lehning for a while and he was cracking me up! He was talking about the basketball team he plays on, and how it’s the Y, so nobody can be kicked off the team! It was so funny I was dying laughing. I saw Butterfly Boucher, and she said the best thing ever: “I got your email, I just didn’t respond!” Ha ha! But she said she had a good time in England but was happy to be back. “I realize I like my life.”, she said. Nicole Hart was there, and she told me Leslie “Smells Like Heaven” and i’m going to make a song out of that. Is that already a song? Natalie Cox Mead asked me if I had seen any results from “the secret” and I was glad to report that I had! The Nickelodeon song thing! Also, the parking spaces. Heidi Ross said a great thing, she said she had started to “wish smarter”. Grimey was there for a while, and Angelo and Eulene and I think I will walk with them tomorrow. Emily West brought her sister, and she said she had vodka again, and she’s always trying to get me buzzed! Oh, and I fogot, Marna came over earlier and brought her dog, Ollie, and he had a great time playing with Posh. Posh got to be the big dog for once, and it was hilarious.